Wally Moon
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Moon in 1961.
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| Outfielder | |||
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Born: April 3, 1930 Bay, Arkansas |
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| MLB debut | |||
| April 13, 1954, for the St. Louis Cardinals | |||
| Last MLB appearance | |||
| September 12, 1965, for the Los Angeles Dodgers | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Batting average | .289 | ||
| Home runs | 142 | ||
| Runs batted in | 661 | ||
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Wallace Wade Moon, known as Wally Moon, (born April 3, 1930, in Bay, Craighead County, Arkansas) is a former Major League Baseball outfielder. Moon played his 12-year career in the major leagues for the St. Louis Cardinals (1954–58) and Los Angeles Dodgers (1959–65). He batted left-handed and threw right-handed.
Moon was the 1954 National League Rookie of the Year. He was an All-Star for two seasons and a Gold Glove winner one season. Moon batted .295 or more for seven seasons. He led the National League in triples in 1959 and in fielding percentage as left fielder in 1960 and 1961.
Moon was a 3-time World Series champion with the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1959, 1963, and 1965.
Moon was named after Wallace Wade, a former college football coach at the University of Alabama and Duke University. From a family of educators, he earned a master's degree in administrative education from Texas A&M University in College Station while he was still in the minor leagues. He coached from 1953 to 1954 at Lake City, also in Craighead County, Arkansas.
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